Social Security

Social Security

A program of the United States federal government that provides income to disabled and (especially) elderly people. That is, persons who have paid into the Social Security system for a certain period of time are eligible to receive what amounts to a government pension in retirement or in the event of disability. It is paid out of the Social Security trust fund and is financed through FICA taxes. Because Social Security is the single largest expense of the federal budget, periodic attempts are made to wholly or partly privatize Social Security, though opponents claim that doing so would make the American social safety net less secure. See also: SSI, TANF, SCHIP.

Social Security.

Social Security is a federal government program designed to provide income for qualifying retired people, their dependents, and disabled people who meet the Social Security test for disability.

You qualify for retirement benefits if you have had at least the minimum required payroll tax withheld from your wages for 40 quarters, the equivalent of 10 years.

The minimum for each quarter is set by Congress and increases slightly each year. You earn credits toward disability coverage in the same way.

The amount you receive in Social Security retirement benefits, up to the annual cap, is determined by the payroll taxes you paid during your working life, which were matched by an equal tax paid by your employers. Some of your benefit may be subject to income tax if your income plus half your benefit is higher than the ceiling Congress sets.

Participants will also identify the elements of successful social protection policies from successful regional and international examples and put forward context-specific policies to expand the social protection net in the Arab countries.

of Sussex, England) and Getu (a program specialist at the Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa, Ethiopia) present the results of a project in which African researchers where invited to produce country case studies exploring local sources of vulnerability, poverty, and exclusion together with the informal and formal social protection systems through which people cope with such issues.

I have to point out that these exciting developments are taking place in the context of an increased commitment by the Namibian Government to reduce poverty and social inequalities as well as a heightened global momentum to establish and maintain national floors of social protection," said Tjivikua.

The ceremony was the culmination of a two year effort by EU and the Ministry of Social Affairs to develop an equitable, comprehensive and efficient social protection system in the occupied Palestinian Territory (oPT).

The OAS Secretary General, the FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Hunger-Free Latin America and Caribbean Initiative (ALCSH) are collaborating to use the tools of the Inter-American Social Protection Network (IASPN) to promote cooperation on social protection policies and programs for food security.

New figures reveal that 4,588 internships have been offered since the Government began the project last July - but the Department of Social Protection admitted that 2,187 of these required a thirdlevel qualification.

In addition, the opposition proposed modifications to the social protection law, according to which all costs for submitting documents for exercising the right to a financial aid for social protection should be covered by the state.

24 (ANI): While social protection mechanisms in India have typically focused on people living below the poverty line (BPL), people living with HIV (PLHIV) may require protection irrespective of their BPL status.

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